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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education
Character
Intelligence
Think
Critically
Plus
True
True Education
Goal
Teach
Function
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time
Intelligence
Mind
Ability
Retain
Ideas
First-Rate
Still
Test
Opposed
Same
Same Time
Hold
Function
Two
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
Anthony Carmona
Positive
Family
Communication
Social Media
Fly
Websites
Sense
Battleground
Destroying
Longer
Performing
Envisaged
Self-Esteem
Insults
Self-Worth
Link
Friends
Person
Human
Where
Social
Creating
Function
Media
Professionals
Lives
Among
Damaging
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
Vote
Rights
Oppression
Political
Minority
Earth
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Protect
Majority
Subject
Precisely
Public
Function
Away
Right
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Time
Power
Interpretation
All Things
Prevails
Given
Subject
Function
Things
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
Brene Brown
Love
Needs
Hurt
People
Met
Fall
Sense
Sick
Others
Those
All People
Physically
Spiritually
Wired
Were
Get
Aches
Break
Loved
Apart
To Love
Meant
Deep
Function
Belong
Biologically
Belonging
Numb
Need
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
Criticism
Pain
State
Attention
Calls
Same
May
Human
Human Body
Unhealthy
Body
Agreeable
Function
Things
Necessary
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
Federico Fellini
Relationship
You
Obey
Sickness
Changed
Other
Consider
Way
Pleasure
Give
Boss
Around
Realise
Should
Body
Used
Who
Function
Servant
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
God
Nature
Prayer
Change
Rather
Prays
Influence
Who
Function
I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.
Myles Munroe
God
Man
Heart
Eyes
Vision
Gift
Greatest Gift
Think
Gave
Sight
Greatest
Function
Ever
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
Jodi Picoult
Family
Morning
You
Wolf
Thinking
Everyone
One Morning
Parameters
About
Within
Does
Woke
Wolves
Falls
Up
Families
Role
Pack
Apart
Packs
Succeeds
Realized
Act
Your
Whole
Function
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Respectable
Astrology
Only
Economic
Look
Make
Function
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
Me
Quality
Human Being
Duty
Potential
Had
Development
Instinctive
Since
Sincere
Expansion
Child
Human
Being
Urge
Function
Ever
Growth
Honest
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
Time
Man
Live
Prolong
Proper
My Time
Shall
Days
Exist
Trying
Them
Use
Function
Waste
Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.
Kevin R. Stone
You
Water
Will
Drinking
System
Out
Drinking Water
Cleanse
Like
Up
Improve
Decrease
Your
Washing
Fill
Function
Load
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry
Stupid
Believe
Primary
Make
Scientists
Males
Breasts
Function
Now
Biological
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work
Education
Creative
Discipline
Judgment
Our
Guide
Responsible
Must
Clarity
Rational
Through
Lead
Students
Road
True
Over
Opinion
Materials
Intellectual
Irresponsible
Order
Us
Therefore
Creative Work
Function
Let Us
Chance
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Robert Jackson
Government
Citizen
Falling
Error
Function
Keep
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand
Man
Mind
Everything
Religious
Highest
Smallest
Abstraction
Attribute
His
Wheel
Reasoning
Skyscraper
Function
Necessity
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
Art
Faith
Change
World
Reflect
Society
Changeable
Unless
Must
Also
Truthful
Decay
Decaying
Break
Wants
Social
Show
Help
Function
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
Suffering
Socialism
Higher
Higher Level
Function
Level
Raise
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Neil Gaiman
People
Building
Tool
More
Allowing
Empathy
Individuals
Than
Us
Groups
Function
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
Robin S. Sharma
Success
Contribution
Size
Title
Success Is
Your
Richness
Function
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
David Suzuki
Natural
Money
Water
Soil
Will
Air
Alive
Destroy
Systems
Well
Us
Function
Keep
Amount
Biodiversity
Save
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
Dick Cavett
Depression
Better
Patient
Suicide
Saddest
Perhaps
Irony
Gets
Happens
Again
Little
Function
Sufficiently
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom
Good
Good And Evil
Evil
Between
Discriminate
Function
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